Private by design. Yours to keep.
Everything that makes Vocco fast also makes it private — the transcription never leaves the machine it runs on.
Audio never leaves this room
Speech is transcribed by Apple's on-device engine. Works offline — on a plane, in a meeting under NDA. We couldn't read your words if we wanted to.
No subscription. Ever.
Local processing costs us nothing per use — so we don't bill you monthly for it. One payment, yours for good, updates included.
14 days, all features, no card
Download and dictate in the next two minutes. Every feature unlocked for a week — decide after it has already saved you an afternoon.
Faster than typing, everywhere you type
Vocco lives in your menu bar. Hold the hotkey in Mail, Slack, Xcode or a browser — words appear where your cursor is, punctuated and cleaned up.
Built for the way you actually speak
Mix Chinese and English mid-sentence and most engines fall apart. Vocco ships the ones that don't — benchmarked in the open, running entirely on your Mac.
All four run fully on-device in Vocco. Whisper large-v3-turbo is the engine most Mac dictation apps rely on.
Who said what — built in
Drop in a meeting recording and the transcript comes back split by speaker, with timestamps. The diarization models ship inside the app and run offline — nothing extra to download, nothing uploaded.
Five on-device engines
Start instantly with Apple Speech, then add Qwen3 ASR, SenseVoice, Paraformer or Whisper in one click — fast, resumable downloads right inside the app. Vocco recommends the best one for you.
SRT subtitles & timestamps
Every file transcript keeps per-segment timestamps and plays back alongside its audio. Export to SRT for subtitles, or keep it as searchable meeting notes.
Your Mac has dictation. Why Vocco?
Same on-device privacy as the built-in engine — wrapped in a flow that's actually faster than typing, without a meter running.
| macOS dictation | Cloud dictation apps | Vocco | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold one key, release — text is pasted | — | varies | ✓ |
| Streams live, clean sentence breaks | basic | ✓ | ✓ |
| Searchable dictation history | — | in their cloud | ✓ on your Mac |
| Works offline | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Audio stays on your Mac | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Price | free | $12–15 / month | $9.9 once |
One price.
No meter running.
Cloud dictation apps charge $12–15 every month, forever. Vocco runs on hardware you already own — so you pay once.
- All features, on 2 of your Macs
- All updates included — no upgrade fees
- Unlimited dictation, offline forever
- Real-time streaming transcription & local history
No sign-up needed — the first 100 buyers get the founding price automatically at checkout.
14-day free trial, no card. 14-day money-back guarantee after purchase — no questions asked.
Questions
macOS already has free dictation — why pay for Vocco?
Same engine, very different product. Built-in dictation makes you toggle it on and off and leaves the raw output as-is. Vocco is push-to-talk: hold one key anywhere, speak, release — the text is already pasted, punctuated, and split into clean sentences by on-device voice detection. Every dictation is also kept in a local, searchable history. If you dictate more than once a day, that difference is the product.
Does Vocco need an internet connection?
No. Transcription runs entirely on Apple silicon using the system speech engine. The only network requests are checking for app updates and activating your license — both optional after setup.
Which languages does it transcribe?
Out of the box, every language Apple's on-device speech recognition supports — including English and Chinese with automatic punctuation. For mixed Chinese–English speech you can download stronger on-device engines in one click (Qwen3 ASR, SenseVoice, Paraformer, Whisper). Everything still runs offline.
What happens when the trial ends?
Dictation pauses and your local history stays readable. Enter a license key to continue — nothing is deleted, and we don't have your card, so nothing is charged.
Is it really a one-time purchase?
Yes. One payment covers the app and its updates on two Macs. If we ever ship a paid major upgrade, your version keeps working forever — but there are no upgrade fees planned.
How do you handle payment?
Checkout is handled by Paddle, our merchant of record — cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, and Alipay for customers in China. Your license key arrives by email within a minute.
Do you offer student or education discounts?
Yes — students and educators get 25% off the regular price. Email support@vocco.co from your school address and we'll send you a discount link.